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Jeff Sloan: CEO Decodes Leading Global Public Companies and Transforming Global Payments - Acertitude
acertitude.comBlake (Boom) is getting some well-deserved hype (I can't wait for my first supersonic flight!), and lots of folks are discovering that he last worked at Groupon.
Kind of surprising now but Groupon was an awesome talent magnet, and a good place to learn - we were figuring out new categories with limited resources.
Back in 2012, I worked closely wi... See more
Sheel Mohnotx.comPartnering up in early 1957 with a fellow researcher, Harlan Anderson, Olsen secured $70,000 from Harvard Business School professor Georges Doriot, who had established a tech-focused investment fund he called “venture capital” to support young and untested entrepreneurs. Olsen and Anderson departed MIT and moved into a shuttered textile mill in the
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Fred Smith wasn’t your typical rich kid. At the age of four, his old man dropped dead of a massive heart attack, leaving the young boy to grow up fatherless. Worst yet, Smith suffered from calcium deficiency disease. This weakened his bones, preventing him from playing sports, rough housing and enjoying physical activities.Longing for freedom, Smit... See more
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Pratt hired Gould to survey a tanning site, but was sufficiently impressed that he made him a partner and manager of the projected new tannery. So the pint-sized Gould, barely out of his teens, led fifty workmen into the woods and built virtually a full-scale town, including living and food service quarters, a mule-powered bark crushing plant and c
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